After multiple delays Sony Interactive Entertainment updated its release date for Iron Man VR to July 3. In January the game was delayed into May and then COVID-19-related issues saw the game pushed indefinitely as Sony’s PlayStation and other game platforms saw a cascade of effects from the pandemic, including changes to quality assurance testing...
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Beat Saber AR Concept Imagines Miniature Lightsaber Fingers
We’ve seen a lot of funny and intriguing concepts for projects from Daniel Beauchamp, aka @pushmatrix on Twitter, but his latest reimagines for AR something that’s become an icon of VR design. The idea sees blue and red lightsabers coming out of the ends of fingers for a tabletop miniature version of Beat Saber. He...
Editorial: Facebook Should Aim To Replace Its 3 VR Headsets With 1
Every day people all over the world consider purchasing their first virtual reality headset- more now than ever before. If you’ve got a PlayStation 4 sitting in front of an open living room and want to play VR games like No Man’s Sky, Skyrim VR, and Blood & Truth, what choice to make is fairly...
PlayStation Job Listings Says PS5 Launches In October
Sony itself might have just leaked PS5’s release window; an official job listing says it’s coming in October. The listing, flagged by Twitter news account, Nibel, is in Japanese. Based on a Google translation, it’s for a role in procuring components for manufacturing. Specifically, the role is concerned with the PS5 which, the listing states,...
Beat Sage Adds MP3 Upload Support For AI Generated Beat Saber Maps
Beat Sage, a powerful tool that uses neural networks and artificial intelligence to generate custom Beat Saber maps, now supports MP3 uploads. The previous version of the tool only supported YouTube links, but now users will be able to upload their own MP3s to the site to generate playable Beat Saber maps. The tool launched...
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Devs ‘Open To’ Making A Sequel
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a big success, delivering an immersive adventure through a zombie-laden New Orleans that’s full of tense moments and action-packed gameplay. And according to developers at Skydance Interactive, it may not be the last time we get to see this brand of zombie-slaying in VR. During a recent Reddit...
Community Download: Which Retro Games Would You Replay In VR?
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today’s Community Download, we want to know which old-school retro games would you most want to replay in VR? Over the...
Virtual Desktop Adds Offline Support Over LAN Connections On Oculus Quest
A new beta release of Virtual Desktop adds an option that allows computer discovery when all devices are on a LAN connection that is offline and not connected to the internet. Previously, although Virtual Dekstop is run entirely over LAN, the network still needed to be online initially in order to find the host computer...
Sidequest For Oculus Quest Sees 1 Million Downloads In Less Than A Year
Sideloading platform Sidequest says they’ve seen 1 million downloads of their platform in less than a year’s time. The platform arrived shortly after Oculus Quest started shipping in May 2019 to smooth out the process of loading up content onto Quest without formal approval by Facebook. Sidequest offered a route for developers to more easily...
Editorial: To Keep Up, Sony Must Prepare To Release More Than One PSVR Next-Gen
At over five million units sold, Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is considered a modest success in the fledgling VR market. For its VR business to grow significantly, though, the company needs to set the bar much higher in the next-generation. That might mean multiple PSVR headsets. Sony still says its anticipated PlayStation 5 (PS5) console...
